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#1

“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: fantasy, humor, imagination, literature, stories

6659 likes

#2

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

tags: humor, metaphysics, physics, science

3506 likes

#3

“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
― Terry Pratchett

3097 likes

#4

“If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you.”
― Terry Pratchett

2975 likes

#5

“And what would humans be without love?"
RARE, said Death.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

2187 likes

#6

“Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."
Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: alcohol, death, drinking, humor

1408 likes

#7

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

tags: magic, technology

1244 likes

#8

“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.”
― Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

1567 likes

#9

“HUMAN BEINGS MAKE LIFE SO INTERESTING. DO YOU KNOW, THAT IN A UNIVERSE SO FULL OF WONDERS, THEY HAVE MANAGED TO INVENT BOREDOM. (Death)”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: apathy, boredom, cynism, ennui, humor

1315 likes

#10

“We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.”
― Terry Pratchett, Night Watch

tags: death, gallows-humor, humor, laughing

901 likes

#11

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

tags: conservation, environmentalism, humor

1038 likes

#12

“Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation

tags: show-off

774 likes

#13

“If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

761 likes

#14

“The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.”
― Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

tags: humor

697 likes

#15

“Insanity is catching.”
― Terry Pratchett, Making Money

tags: insanity

508 likes

#16

“There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.”
― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

719 likes

#17

“Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: fantasy

582 likes

#18

“Sometimes it's better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play

tags: paraphrased

479 likes

#19

“Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

423 likes

#20

“No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away...”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

tags: death, humourous

699 likes

#21

“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

tags: humor

530 likes

#22

“The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

tags: humor, philosophy, terry-pratchett, wintersmith

482 likes

#23

“When in doubt, choose to live.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

tags: wisdom

504 likes

#24

“Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them”
― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

tags: humor, macabre

331 likes

#25

“Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.”
― Terry Pratchett

tags: dare, taunt

284 likes

#26

“People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.”
― Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

354 likes

#27

“I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible.”
― Terry Pratchett

192 likes

#28

“Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show.”
― Terry Pratchett

272 likes

#29

“On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

tags: gods, religion

251 likes

#30

“What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

240 likes

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